Newbery Medal Winner
The View from Saturday
by E. L. Konigsburg
Summary
Four sixth graders form an unlikely Academic Bowl team coached by a paraplegic teacher, and their interlocking stories reveal how their lives quietly connect. Konigsburg uses a layered structure and gentle wit to examine kindness, belonging, and the small acts that bind people together. The novel rewards careful readers with its puzzle like construction and its thoughtful characters.
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Historical Context & Significance
This was E. L. Konigsburg's second Newbery Medal, won nearly thirty years after her first for From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler in 1968.